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Sooner or later a catastrophic injury list and a lead player going AWOL was always going to impact on West Ham United sooner or later, in fact Hammers achievements of late have been nothing short of miraculous given the circumstances but this was another game too far for Manuel Pellegrini's beleagured squad. To have so many first team players missing through injury was bad enough, but to then have Marko Arnoutovic go 'all peacock' was the straw that broke a most resolute camel's back!

Bournemouth: Boruc, Clyne, Smith, Ake, Cook, Lerma, Gosling, Brooks, Fraser, King, Wilson. Subs: Begovic, Surman, Mousset, Daniels, Stanislas, Rico, Simpson.
West Ham: Fabianski, Cresswell, Zabaleta, Diop, Ogbonna, Rice, Noble, Nasri, Anderson, Antonio, Carroll. Subs: Adrian, Snodgrass, Obiang, Hernandez, Masuaku, Silva, Diangana.

During a time of 'delicate' negotiations regarding the on off transfer of Marko Arnoutovic, West Ham United's director of football Mario Husillos and co-owner David Sullivan, who act alongside Manuel Pellegrini, will have been less than pleased with Michail Antonio's "‘everyone knows" Marko wants to leave comments recently made to Sky TV.